Missing Apple Features and Products
High-impact or noticeably missing features and products for 2023 (Part 1/2):
- Custom Apple Watch faces
- Reminders in the Calendar app
- Custom search engine in Safari
- Albums in Photos Shared Library
- Clipboard history
- Passwords is an app
- Clear and separate volume controls for audio, ringer, and Siri voice
- iCloud Private Relay system-wide (VPN)
- Landscape mode but only for video
- Xcode for iPad 🥹
Medications widget on phone
Enhanced Notes app comparible to OneNote
A fucking calculator app on iPad
A ‘do not switch’ mode for AirPods temporarily so my work phone doesn’t disconnect my Mac headphones
@Venicon The iPad calculator is an obvious one that I missed. I’ll add that to my list for next time.
And you aren’t the only one who’s mentioned Health app improvements. The medication feature needs to be more visible and easier to log than just the timed notification that it sends.
Edit: Some of my replies are not showing up on Lemmy. Maybe I need to tag @apple_enthusiast
For the most part I think having something like the Health app to store all your health data is brilliant, it just needs a wee bit more refinement. Would also like to see some of the options added as widgets!
Alternate browser engines
EU save us
@apple_enthusiast Note for Mastodon readers: I cross posted this to Lemmy. Let’s see how it works!
Viewing and posting from Memmy on iOS, for what it’s worth!
Good list. Would like to see the separate volumes, especially when it comes to CarPlay. I have notifications silenced generally so nbd for me, but my ears explode when my dad gets a text in his car. If he turns down the alert volume then the call volume goes too, so he just leaves it at “tinnitus inducing” at all times.
Clipboard history would also be pretty great.
These are what I can think of that I’d like to see, in no particular order:
- Battery widget that displays battery status for all Find My devices instead of just those connected over Bluetooth
- Apple Music playback state sync between devices
- NFS network share support on iOS (SMB is a major pain in the ass)
- Advanced audio routing: output to multiple devices at once on iOS/macOS; play from multiple devices at once on AirPods or chaining devices, e.g. iPhone -> Mac -> AirPods (I already do this with my Linux PC instead of the Mac)
- Sleep mode on Apple Watch to show normal watch face while still having the screen locked
- Subtask support for CalDAV reminders
Universal Back Gesture!
- Text to speech Intercom as action in Home (not just in shortcuts): „Dear all, the front door has been open for more than 10 minutes“)
- Share iCloud libraries with write privilege to non Apple users
- same for shared folders
- when using an external monitor with an iPad, play sound over iPad (not the connected monitor)
- bullet points within table cells in notes app.
- better Siri
